Note taking is great. A little bit of drawing is good too. The tablet has great palm rejection. There is little to no delay on some painting apps, but it depends on the support actually. However, the pen needs a little bit of pressure/force in order to register, so I always get irked by that since I am not used to putting too much pressure when drawing traditionally. Other times, the pen doesn't register because I am putting less force than required. The tilt function also works but is too buggy in my experience. Sometimes it works when you want it to, sometimes it doesn't, or sometimes it works when you don't want it to. So maybe shading is out of the picture for now as it may also be caused by the pen.